The 64 or so Israeli people killed in this war (thus far) is equivalent to America losing ~2,500 people, in 26 days!
That is like 9/11 for Israel.
The HAMAS plan to kill, capture and destroy Israeli civilian communities on Rosh Ha Shana (Jewish New Year, this coming September) is an event that would have demanded absolute annihilation of Gaza and the expulsion of tha 1.5 million Gazans.
It cannot be underestimated what Israel would have done after losing MANY THOUSANDS of civilians in a MEGA-TERROR ATTACK on a scale not seen since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
In this PRE-EMPTIVE war, the world would have PREFERRED that there would have been 1700 dead Paleostinians to 1700 dead Israelis. Then, the UN and many other bodies would have been HAPPY that all things are “equal”, “fair” and “balanced” and that there is a sort of grotesque sense of JUSTICE in this conflict.
Symmetry would have been nice BUT, those DAMN Jews refuse to die so easily, as in the past.
Damn them, damn them for not dying in EQAUL numbers!
Damn them for having the Iron Dome system!
Damn them for trying to tell Paleostinians to leave the war zones before attacking.
Damn them for the many accidental deaths, designed by HAMAS.
Damn them for revealing to the world that UNWRA is almost a wing of all terror groups.
Damn them for showing us that HAMAS doesn't care for the lives or welfare of the people who put them into power.
In short, damn the Jews for DISPROPORTIONALLY damaging and killing in Gaza, it's just not FAIR. Disproportionately is, unfortunately, the ONLY THING these 5th Century BC tribes understand. Anybody who now ridicules Israel for “heavy handed” techniques does not realize that they, themselves are in the Islamic Caliphate cross hairs, and that ISRAEL'S FIGHT, IS OUR FIGHT, so wake up folks... Every nation in the world, faced with Israel's dilemmas would not have thought twice about completely destroying an enemy, shelling it's towns and cities since 2000. The "MODERATE" PLO-FATAH shelled Israel from 2000-2007. Then HAMAS had the "privilege" of shelling Israeli civilians centers from 2007-present. What would you do in Israel's predicament?
Israel, like the big powers (USA, China, Russia, UK) have thermonuclear weapons alongside the nuclear weapons that lesser powers (DPRK, Pakistan, Iran, Brazil, India) possess and also have cruise missiles on submarines.